Motivational Quotes

Music

The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Music

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Howard, Harlan

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

10.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

12.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Pepys, Samuel

13.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

15.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.

Halpern, Steven

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

20.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

21.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

Gershwin, George

23.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Tate, Jeffrey

24.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

25.

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

27.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

28.

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

29.

[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

30.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Wilde, Oscar

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

40.

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil

41.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

42.

If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.

Proverb, Zimbabwe

43.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

44.

I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

47.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Davis, Miles

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.